Must be incinerator fever at the moment.
Looks like the company building the incinerator is going to be busy convincing everyone it is safe
....and the results for the Poll
Regards Kathy x
The incinerator was supported by the poll in the 75% of Norfolk that was furthest from the proposed site, and was damned in the 25% of Norfolk nearest the site. That can be interpreted two ways, of course.
However, the whole incinerator option was undermined from the start by the local authorities getting themselves into a procedural muddle by going for the incinerator option, not realising that they then could not act neutrally as a consequence! Secondly, modern incinerator schemes in mainland Europe can't go ahead without a network of monitoring sites that not only monitor continuously the whole range of potential pollutants, but provide a means of shutting the incinerator down should certain levels be exceeded. Because monitoring levels are published regularly, people living near incinerators have some means of knowing what's going on. In our society, officialdom of any kind views secrecry as the default starting point!
One of the protestors correctly seized upon this point as an unacceptable shortcoming in the scheme. It is almost certain that the lack of continuous monitoring in the scheme brought down the set-up costs.
Whatever waste-disposal option is selected, none is without some kind of risk and all are going to cost money, yet at the same time local authorities are closing domestic waste disposal sites to save money! You could not invent this, could you?
By the way, the European incinerator monitoring schemes have quite often detected unacceptable levels of pollutants, but not from the normally-running incinerators, but from bonfires, straw/stubble accidental fires and building fires. Because the present monitoring schemes have been effective, the European Parliament is proposing to reduce the requirement (to save money, I guess) to monitor that way, just when the latest technology for constant monitoring has reached production standard to monitor a very wide range of potential pollutants. Muddled thinking amongst politicians isn't limited to Norfolk politicians!
MJB
